On October 24, 2019 it became known that the Russian companies began to face viruses which extend under the guise of accounting documents in large quantities.

According to partner network ePN, in the third quarter of 2019, the number of orders in online stores increased by 18%. In addition, there is a decrease in the average purchase receipt — more than 6% - every month buyers make purchases more often, but the cost of purchased goods is less.

78% of Russian financial companies are unable to withstand a large-scale cyberattack.

This follows from the analytical survey of Positive Technologies (Izvestia have its results). Banks don’t know how to behave in case of such an incident, where to go and what documents to prepare, experts told Izvestia. Credit institutions themselves claim that everything isn’t so bad and the number of hacker attacks is decreasing.

According to the Prosecutor General's office, for the first eight months of 2019, the number of registered crimes in Russia showed an annual growth of almost 67%. Cybercrime is ahead of all other types of crime. The growth was almost double in 2018.

57% of Russians couldn’t distinguish a phishing site from the real one. This is reported by the developer of antivirus Avast. According to the survey, during which respondents were shown two screenshots of the login page of the social network "Vkontakte", more than half of respondents chose the phishing version of the site.